Applications for payments from Virginia's Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program close in six days.

LIHEAP offers low-income families benefits to help pay for heating and cooling systems. In Virginia, residents can send applications for the program until Nov. 14 to receive assistance paying their heating bills as winter approaches.

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To be eligible, citizens must have heating or cooling bills and a gross monthly income of less than 150% of the federal poverty level. A single-person household cannot make more than $1,822, and a 20-person household cannot make more than $13,922 monthly.

LIHEAP payments can be used for furnace restarts, late charges, delivery charges, installation charges, and connection or reconnection fees, and they can be applied to heating costs.

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Applicants can submit their applications online or through local departments of social services.

Benefits will be sent out in December.